Weather-board gage



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UNrrE STATES ATENT Price.

ROBERT A. UNDERWOOD, OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

WEATHER-BOARD GAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,098, dated April 19, 1892.

` Application filed June 8, 1891.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ROBERT A. UNDERwooD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chattanooga,in the county of Hamilton and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Veather-Board Gages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to weather board gages; and it consists of the novel features herein described and claimed.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, wherein the same parts are indicated by the same letters.

Figure l represents a perspective view of a portion of a frame house being covered with weather-boards, and illustrates the method of using my device. Fig. 2 represents the center gage adapted for use on the studs where several lengths of weather-board are to be used. Fig. 3 represents the end Vgage adapted for use on the corner-strips, and which may be supplemented by or used entirely independent of the device shown in Fig. 2j

A and A represent the corner-strips of the house, between which the siding or weather boards B B B2, dac., are to be secured.

C represents one of the studs or uprights between the ceiling (not shown) and the weather-boarding.

D and D represent two gages for the ends of the weather-boards. They dier only in being set right and left. When long strips of weather-board are required or when two or more pieces are to make up the same strip, the gage E is also used.

The gage D or D consists of a block d, having a rectangular tongue d', through holes in which tongue the rods d2 slide.

cl3 is a screw rigidly attached to the block CZ and passing freely through a hole in the sliding clamp-plate C112, which is attached to the end of the rods cl2. The clamp-screw d4 presses thevplate C112 against one side of the cornerstri p A, and also draws the rectangular tongue CZ firmly against the opposite side of the corner-strip A, so clamping the corner-strip firmly. On the back of the block d is a plate or projection di', through which pass the slid- Serial No. 395,539. (No model.)

ing rod d5 and clamp-screw d6. This rod has a shoulder or shelf d8, a hinge di), and a joint d10, terminating in a cylindrical knob du. This rod d5 and joint d10 are graduated in inches and fractions of an inch.

The center gage E consists of a vertical rod e, graduated to inches and fractions thereof, the said rod having arms e and e2, clampscrew e4 for clamping the stud against the arm e2,'the shelf e3 for catching under the next lower weather-board, and the sliding block e5, having arms e for the support of the ends of the two strips of weather-board, said block e5 and arms e6 being set at the proper height by means of the clamp-screw e7.

The operation of my device is as follows: First assuming that one continuous strip of weather-board is to be placed between A and A and that it be desired to put on the strip B2, (in thiscase the gage E need not be pnt on at all,) the gages D and D are clamped at any convenient place along the cornerstrip A, preferably just below the lapping edge of the same strip of weather-board, and the rod Z5 is slid up unt-il the shelf d8 is at the proper distance from the lapping edge just below. The board is then placed in position on the shelf d8, and the joint d10 is turned up. Should the board be too long to go in place, a line drawn with a pencil or nail along the joint d10 will show where to saw it oit, and the board should be slid along or taken down and sawed off to fit. Being of the right length and resting at both ends on the shelves d8 of the gages D and D', one joint clwis turned down and one end of the board is nailed in place. Then the opposite end of the board is also nailed in place. Now by sliding the rods d5 up the width of another strip exposed to the weather the same may be repeated. Second, where the strips are long and heavy, or where two or more separate lengths of weather-board are used in one strip, one or Amore intermediate gages E are needed in addition to the end gages D and D. These gagesE are clamped to the stud above the weather-boarding with the shelf e3 pressing under the bottom of any strip already on. By sliding the block e5 up,

so that the arms e will be at the same distance above e3 that the shelf d8 is set above the next lower lapping edge, the said arms e6 will furnish a support for either the continu- IOO ous board or the two abutting ends of the separate pieces of board. The block ci' should be slid up with the rods d5, and by unelamping the various gages and moving them up as the work progresses the process may be repeated indefinitely. These gages should preferably be made of metal. It will readily be seen that a great saving of labor is effected by their use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a weather-board gage, the combination, with the block d, having the rectangular tongue d and plate (Z7, of the elamp-plate (i12, rods cl2, connected thereto and passin gthrcn gh the tongue d', the screw (Z3, connected to the block d, the nut dit on said screw, the rod d, sliding in the block d and having shelf Ils, and the clampscrew d, adjusting said block @tapes at any desired height, substantially as described.

2. In a weatl1e1'board gage, the combination, with one or more end gages adapted to clamp on the corner strip or strips, of a eenter gage E, having arms e and e2 and clampscrew el for clamping the same on' a Vertical timber, the shelf es i'or engaging beneath a lapping edge of the Weather-boarding, and the block e5, having arms e and sliding o n said rod, with the clamp-screw e7 for clamping said block at any desired height, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I atiix my si gnatu re in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT A. UNDERXVOOD.

XVitnesses:

T. R. IJEYMAN, BOONE WILLIAMS. 

